Is your asthma triggered by wood smoke?

@ecmoandrrt - I hear ya. I finally just decided that I would stop wearing perfume altogether, cause too many bothered me. I'm sure there are some that don't, but I was going into a more radical "de-smell" effort in my life.

No matter how you do the de-scenting of your environment, it seems like it takes time. Hard for me to just throw away every scented spot remover, soap, etc.

I also like unscented laundry soap and shampoo and conditioner. I still have some room sprays in the bathroom I will need to replace as well as bathroom hand soaps. A realtor in our family has always encouraged pretty hand soaps with nice smells. So, I'll have to find something pretty and unscented, or go with some ceramic or other material nice hand soap container and fill it with unscented soap.

Have you found any nice hand soaps or bug sprays that are effective at their jobs and also unscented?

Yes.
I have environmental Asthma. Not Eosinophil or Allergic.
Have 5 perfumes I can wear that won't give me a Asthma attack.
I burn incense and have only a few smells that won't give me an attack(sage, ceder, nag champa, sandalwood, frankincense and myrrh).
Hand creams that don't smell.
Neutral shampoos.
I can't stand scented candles.
Laundry soap has to be neutral.
I have walked into stores and walked out because of "smells".
And outside? Smoke, weather changes, bug sprays, HUMIDITY.....ETC.

Its rough having Asthma my whole life.

This is a sore subject with me. The outside burning of anything. I live in a growing community and the developers' instead of mulching tress cut down they burn them. It creates clouds of smoke that travel for miles.

I have tried to get county commissioners to stop this but they refer me Florida Forestry who issue the applications to burn. One county close to us prohibits outside burning by developers and thus my contact to commissioners to act on it.

I suffer just from being around someone who smokes. My sinuses burn, throat get sore and I cough. You can imagine how I feel with the air full of heavy smoke.

@ailsas thank you for that info

Wood smoke contains phenolic including formaldehyde so those and the particulate matters are all irritants.

@lisalucier not anything that burns wood. I’ve been ok with gas ones that are mainly decorative though

@ghysla - have any alternative types of outside fireplaces worked for you?

@ghysla
Never smoke but parents were chain smokers. I know when my mother would pick up up in the car she would be smoking and the entire car full of smoke. I would start coughing and she says "don't like it get out and walk." So I would and walks miles to my home.

I don't think anyone knows how irritating smoke of any kind is to those sensitive to smoke. The American Cancer Society states that "there is no safe level of second hand smoke." And unless you are smoking it is all second hand smoke.

I have gone through many allergy testing but I think smoke is an irritant that is unhealthy for anyone to breath.

@ghysla Yes, insurance should cover this. I wish you well.

@heisenberg34 I did general allergy testing but my insurance wouldn’t cover anything more in depth, not even for food allergies.
I at least keep track of my reactions and what caused them but more testing should be covered as these can possibly be life threatening situations